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Awesome is easy and Awesome is simple. Show us your simple, supreme brilliance and we'll reward you with a $1000 to make it happen!

1. Think of something Awesome that you want to do.

Whatever "awesome" means to you. Be sure it can be achieved – or at least started – with $1,000. See what others have done around the world. Ideally, it should be something that benefits the city, your community, helps start a business or is just a super cool idea.

Tell us ... (and show us) what your idea is and why it's awesome enough to deserve us giving you $1000 to make it happen.

3. Submit it to us on our easy application form. (you can add links to your video and website there, too)

4. We’ll invite you to a Pitch Party on the 4th Thursday of the month (Thousand Dollar Thursday!)

If your idea makes the Top4 finalists we’ll invite you to meet the Awesome Team and make a 90 second pitch to us and answer a few questions - think Dragons Den but without the cool music, TV cameras and the risk of humiliation from Kevin O'Leary! It's yours to win at this point. Simply WOW us.

5. Picking the Winner - Thousand Dollar Thursday

The Pitch Party will immediately dissolve into the Awards Party and we'll give the winner the $1000 cash on the spot! We take you at your word that you’re going to what you said you would with the cash but there are no strings attached. The only thing we ask of you is that you keep us in the loop and help us create a video of your finished Awesome project for our archives. And remember - if you don’t win the first time, try again! We select a new winner each month.

6. The Icky Legal Stuff

The beauty is that there is no icky legal stuff! How awesome is that? Any submissions you make to us become available to us to feature on The Awesome Foundation websites and for news purposes but all Intellectual Property and Rights to your ideas remain with you. We're just giving you some money to kick start your idea. Yah. Really! See why we're called The Awesome Foundation? :)

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Interested in joining Team Awesome Calgary, either as a Trustee or a Volunteer? Want to learn more about some of the fantastic opportunities that are available within our chapter? Then we want to hear from you!

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Upcoming Events

Next Submission Deadline: We’ll be relaunching in April 2014 with a new granting schedule and submission deadlines. In the meantime, feel free to submit your idea for consideration into our 2014 Submission Pool, and you’ll be the first to know when we ramp up operations again! Or, you can sign up for our newsletter to keep up-to-date on new developments as well.

AudioMob is an Awesome Success!

Our Very First Multi-Micro-Grant!

AF-Calgary awarded their first micro-grant to multiple winners in February 2012. Timmy's Delivery Service & Gumsphere 300 will each receive a full $1,000 micro-grant to help realize their ideas. Click the picture above to learn more.

Our One-Year Anniversary Winner!

AF-Calgary celebrated the anniversary of awarding our very first $1,000 micro-grant in April 2012! In the presence of special guests Jennifer Pollock and the Mayor of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi, Simon Rock and The Calgary Cookie Chase won the honours, marking $12,000 given away by the Calgary chapter of the Awesome Foundation to enable awesomeness in the city!

A Look Back at Previous AF-Calgary Moments

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Just what is the Awesome Foundation?

It's a small group of awesome people who pitch in $100 out of their own pockets each month to grant $1000 to the most awesome idea submitted that month! What's more awesome than $1000 for an awesome idea?!

Wanna be involved?

We have so many incredible ideas submitted and sadly we can't fund them all - but we know there are people in Calgary who want to get involved and be a part of some of these incredible ideas.

We can put you in touch with any of the awesome people who have submitted ideas and together we can all help Calgary be the most awesome place on earth! Check out the list of ideas in our incubator - there's a great idea just waiting for your help to get it going!